The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-30

of the Congo river on the 18th instant
THE population of Nevada has decreased
from 62 1865 to $4,000 persons since 1880.
THE jury disagreed in the case of Cleary,
one of New York's " Doodle" aldermen.
Ex-UNrrED STATES SENATOR f. G. LApHAM
of Canandaigua, N. Y, is dangerously i'll.
NINE deaths have occurred from small
pox at Los Angeles. The disease is subsiding.
Mrs. MARY MANNING died in Wakefield,
Mass, Sunday, aged one hundred five years.
THE Ballard House and several other
buildings have been burned at Quincy, Ill.
JAMES KEARNEY, a New York lawyer is
charged with embeZzling $4,000 from
client.
THE Chicago democrats renominated
Mayor Harrison by reclamation, but he de-
clined
PRESIDENT ROBERT GARRETT will retain
the management of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad.
Discussion is warm in Mexico over the
alleged prejudice of the government toward
Americans.
SENATOR SHERMAN tells the Cincinnati
working-men that third political party can
do no good.
COLONEL LAMONT says there is no reason
for apprehension in regard to the Presi-
dents health.
IT is at present the intention of Mr.. and
Mrs Blaine to sail for Europe in June for "a
years absence.
THE presents received by Emperor Will
lam on his birthday are sufficient to fill five
furniture vans.
OSCAR S. STRAUs of New York has been
appointed minister to Turkey, to succeed
| Sunset Cox
MEMORIAL services in honor of ex-Presi-
dent Arthur will be held in the capitol at
Albany April 23d.
BY railroad collision near Leetonia,
Ohio, an engineer was killed and several
passengers injured.
MR.. WHITE of Taunton, Mass, claims
$4,000 for the loss of his wife by noxious
odors from sewer.
JOHN MAXWELL & Co.'S factory at North
Winchester, Mass, was burned Monday
night; loss 100000.
Mrs. LANGTRY is to marry Fred Gebhard
as soon as legal separation from her hus-
band can be obtained.
The general sale of the Stewart collection
of paintings closed Friday night The total
receipts were $513,750.
Mrs. JOHN FARNHAM, aged one hundred
eight years, died in st. Elizabeth hospital at
Utica, n. Y, Thursday.
A SPECIAL from Avoca, n. Y, says the
greater part of that town was destroyed by
fire Sunday loss $4,000.
AN explosion by which seventy miners
| were killed occurred in Bull cOlliery at
| Sydney, New South Wales.
FIRES planning mill at Binghamton, n.
Y; loss 100000 A pork-packing estab-
lishment at Trenton, n. j.; loss S250,000
The Instructions by snow have been very
serious in the West and in some parts of
the Middle States during the past few days.
BY collision on the Baltimore 81 Phila-
delpha railroad one engineer was fatally
! injured and two other employees badly hurt
THERE is soreness in Tennessee over the
| New York supreme court decision declaring
the drummers' tax of that state unconstitu-
| tiOnal.
FIRE destroyed the clearinghouse of the
Colby iron mine at Bessemer, Mich, last
week, and ten persons are reported burned
to death.
CRAWFORD county (Kansas) druggists
have agreed to take out no licenses and sell
no liquor even for medicinal and sacra-
mental use.
The steamship "Scotia - from France
went ashore on Fire Island, n. Y, with
several hundred emigrant passengers. All
were rescued.
TEN or fifteen persons We're seriously in.
jured in Stillville, n. Y, by the giving way
of floor in the Methodist church there
during donation party.
THE Massachusetts legislature has been
pettioned by the West End Railroad Com
pany for permission to tunnel under Boston
Common and Beacon Hill.
JOHN A. LOGAN, JR., son of the dead SEN
ator, and Miss Edith Andrews, daughter of
| Chauncey NJ. Andrews of Youngstown,
Ohio, were married last week.
Mrs. HARRIET A. MOORE, who sued Moses
Hopkins, the millionaire, for S250000 for
breach of promise, was given a verdict of
$4,000 at Redmond City, Cal, Friday.
DISPATCHES from various points in Illinois,
Iowa and Michigan indicate that the snow
and wind-storm of Saturday night and Sum
day was general and heavy throughout the
Northwest.
ONE of the mysteries of the sea is the dis
appearance of the Japanese man-of-war the
"Uneb Kan" She and her crew of two
hundred men have totally disappeared with
out leaving trace.
Hon. JOHN SHERMAN left hotel in Bir-
mingham, Ala, because the landlord re-
| fused to admit to his house delegation of
colored editors who wished to pay their re-
spects to the senator.
PEOPLE near Bismarck, Dakota who have
been driven to the housetops by the flood,
are now able to get away by walking on
thin ice over two miles. Several have
broken through but escaped.
WINNIPEG (Manitoba) specials say the
cattle losses from the severe weather on the
Ranges WcSU VI lItTt is tStllHdItu du thirty
per cent In some districts, notably Cypress
hills, the loss is fifty per cent.
THE estate of the late Francis Palms of
Detroit amounts to seven millions. His
| will leaves all to two children. One is a
daughter, whom Senator Jones of Florida
has been trying to win for two years.
BRowNs block, large three-story
wooden building on fremont square and
Pleasant street, Claremont, n. H.. was to-
tally destroyed by fire Friday night. Loss
estimated at $4,000; insurance $4,000
THE county treasurer, ex-county clerk,
ex-probate clerk and the eX-sheritf of Ottawa
ILL.,, have been caught using county funds
for personal uses, and each one has taken
from one to twenty-five thousand dollars.
The annual boat-race between the crews
of oxford and Cambridge Universities, En-
gland, occurred Saturday. The contest was
close until near the end, when Oxford
broke an oar and then Cambridge won easily
A QUAKER church at Humboldt, Kansas
has been blown up with dynamite. Frank
Van Meter has been arrested on suspicion
of committing the deed The church mem
bers lately had him prosecuted for gambling
The commander-in-chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic calls upon all posts
in the United States to take measures on the
occasion of General Grants birthday-Apri
27-to, by providing some public assembly
secure contributions for the Grant memorial
The yacht "Coronet" arrived in Queens
town harbor Sunday, having made the run
from New York in fourteen days and nine